Monday, July 28, 2014

Experts question Google’s new ‘moonshot’ project: mapping human genome biomarkers

Canadian experts have concerns about a report that Google Inc. is planning to create a map of the biomarkers in the “healthy” human genome.

Researchers have told The Globe and Mail they would welcome the search giant to this area of study, which they say is underfunded, but they questioned how useful Google’s project would be based on the relatively small number of people it would involve (just 175 initially).

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